Champion: 75 books

How can we increase awareness and understanding of other cultures using interactive digital visualizations of past civilizations? In order to answer the above question, this book first examines the needs and requirements of virtual travelers and virtual tourists. Is there a market for virtual travel?...

Investigating the occult using deductive reasoning, esoteric knowledge and psychic ability, the Edwardian protagonists of these classic tales tackle haunted houses, diabolic possessions and more earthly deeds of greed, corruption and murder. In Harold Begbie's six tales of Andrew Latter (1904),...

The Low Countries were at the heart of innovation in Europe in the fifteenth century. Throughout this period, the flourishing cultures of the Low Countries were also wrestling with time itself. The Fullness of Time explores that struggle, and the changing conceptions of temporality that it represented...

Teral Evelyn Champion was born in Washington, D.C. where she learned Transcendental Meditation. She has been practicing this technique since 1975. Teral earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology from Edgewood College in Madison, Wisconsin. At age 50, she earned a Masters of Social Work degree...

Lilly has her thirteenth birthday. She realizes that she is a part of a guardian family of a magical hairbrush. When her mother and aunt go missing, she must travel with her guardian, Harry to find out the truth about herself and how extraordinary she is.Lilly learns the way of her family and...

A storm of undead is coming to the Louisiana swamps. In the churning fury of the strong winds and rain of a natural disaster, an unnatural contagion is born. The sickness is carried within the storm surge's relentlessly advancing tide. As the first wall of the hurricane assaults the...

There are all the joys of Ken Champion’s writing here – a vivid depiction of time and place created with painterly skill, telling humour and characters both bound by and railing against society’s expectations. This is a world rich and busy with the banter, camaraderie and cruelty of daily life,...

In his expansive new novel, Champion confidently strides the global stage cleverly inter-linking three lives as he reflects on relationships, work, community and what success means for people and places in the fragile, crash-and-burn economy of the 20th Century. At times angry, funny, touching and tender, THRUST is a compelling read posing huge questions that demand our full attention.’

Welcome to the world of Hentrio.  Nick Bint is a seventeen year old who has trained everyday of his life to become an honored Refect when he would come of age. The Refect serve the king and guard Hentrio’s cities in order to keep citizens safe. With so many gifted individuals who can cast...

“We are members of an elite rescue unit…The Mystery Alliance. All of the members of this rescue unit are called Mystics. Mystics have haunting, surreal beauty: almost as though we were chosen to be Mystics from the womb. We also have unique abilities and skills which set us apart from others....

Understanding Storytelling Among African American Children: A Journey From Africa to America reports research on narrative production among African American children for the purpose of extending previous inquiry and discussion of narrative structure. Some researchers have focused on the influence...

Organic Design in Twentieth-Century Nordic Architecture presents a communicable and useful definition of organic architecture that reaches beyond constraints. The book focuses on the works and writings of architects in Nordic countries, such as Sigurd Lewerentz, Jørn Utzon, Sverre Fehn and the Aaltos...

We are members of an elite rescue unit…The Mystery Alliance. And we are known as Mystics. Mystics have fascinating, ethereal beauty, as though predestined to be Mystics from birth. We possess extraordinary skills and abilities; set apart from human beings. The Mystery Alliance are mysterious rescuers...

Each time the teachings of the Buddha have entered a new culture outside their Indian birthplace, they have to undergo renewal and reinterpretation so as to gain traction in the new host society. Stephen Batchelor’s work represents a landmark in Buddhism’s sinking roots in the modern west, and...